So I've got a working interrupt handler, keyed off the VDP. This generates 60 IRQs per second. In the ISR, a clock counter is updated and the keyboard scanned every 4 IRQs (15 times per second, or 66 msec).

I'm working on a queue to store scanned keys. This is simple enough, but I'm trying to squeeze out every drop of speed and size I can get, so this may take a while.

Initial testing shows that I can refresh the screen at about 30 FPS, which is pretty good.

I'm looking into the idea of using the 9901 to scan the keyboard. The problem is that it looks like I would need to increase the IRQ rate to cycle through the keyboard columns. I wonder if I can use hardware to cycle columns for me.